Crossword-Solution: ANKYLOSTOMIASIS
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| infestation with hookworms, leading to anaemia | 2 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with ANKYLOSTOMIASIS (5)
Under his direction Bücklers established the interesting fact that Ankylostomiasis in its relation to eosinophilia does not occupy a special place in diseases caused by worms.
Leichtenstern, as we learn from a private communication, has quite recently found 72% eosinophil cells in a case of Ankylostomiasis, and 34% in a case of Tænia mediocanellata.
Since eosinophil cells and Charcot's crystals have elsewhere been observed to be interconnected phenomena (for example in bronchial asthma, in nasal polypi, in myelæmic blood and bone-marrow) one must fall in with Leichtenstern's supposition that eosinophil cells ought also to be found in the intestinal mucus in cases of Ankylostomiasis.
ANKYLOSTOMIASIS, or ANCHYLOSTOMIASIS (also called helminthiasis, "miners' anaemia," and in Germany _Wurmkrankheit_), a disease to which in recent years much attention has been paid, from its prevalence in the mining industry in England, France, Germany, Belgium, North Queensland and elsewhere.
UNCINARIASIS Hookworm infection (uncinariasis, ankylostomiasis) is commonly caused by infection through the skin of the feet, but the possibility of mouth infection cannot be disregarded, and in regions where hookworm disease exists methods of guarding against food contamination should be practiced, as well as other precautions.